As much as I am able to understand about US so far, individualism is the only god for the majority of the Amaricans, irrespective of which political ideology they follow.
With love,
Sanjay
All right, then, it is an ominous sign that Capital has a negative intrinsic quality, that is approaching an unintended objective which may soon enough reveal a hidden transcendental.
I long ago , and not infrequently predicted a major appearent flow, that was not used even by Marx, that is, an ill conceived and unconvincing rationale .
The rationale regarding class dynamics patently ignores the question of the underlying pressure cooker thermodynamic considerations, that drives the conceptual indexes in modern corporate America.
Since this phenomena is unevident, the idea of suppression, intentional or otherwise, may merely be a sign that it is part and parcel of it’s own reason d’etre.
The limit I predict is , the trillion dollar acquisition of personal holdings, and I may, with a fairly probable certainty, sustain a belief, that an internal correction has to occur, at around that limit.
A self induced correction , where the political, social and economic integration will uncontrollably become unhinged.
I think it may even be sensible at this time to interpret the frantic deflationary moves by the Fed, to signify at least a partial uber-control to avoid a calamity, which the Pandemic may merely signify.
A whole lot of undifferentiated ‘thermodynamics’ is cooking below what others may see as a metaphor of Susan Sontag used to coin as devil ing into the symptom .
This symptomatic revelation need not bother interests who have vested an absolute objective can steamroll come he’ll or high water, because this would cause investiture on principle to disintegrate.
Therefore I shall call an unlimited application of the feeding of capital on itself a vampiristic, an imported concept originated by a female vampire living in the backwoods of Transylvania, a dark princess, who fed her beauty on hundreds of young women.
Capital feeds on labor as a commodity, and middle men become gorged on both labor and the market.
The essential need to universalize Capital, shows the idea that an absolute engorged system with in a submerged classless work force is a predictable requirement.
The vampire is the God of America.
It is an affable form of governance only when reasonable limits of social benefit are interjected with systematic application.
Yep. Another good one.
Thanks Orbire. Forgive me for quoting it in case you still wish to delete it and erase traces of it - I have made that a nonoption. The world is now stuck with this notion.
Interesting: the god of America being the Vampire - now reading Silhouettes post in this light, the plot thickens!
First thing I notice: Narcissus was a vampire unto himself. America is sucking itself dry because of its boundless and reasonless self-admiration. There is no limit to the self-admiration, because - well, there is no God to admire above oneself.
Except the case of the Nation itself; the flag, the anthem, the superbowl fly-bys, - Nationalism as the force that curbs, or sets a limit to, the expansion of the ego of the individual American.
But, what we see now is that the ego of the individuals is expanding so far and wide that even Nationalism must be cast aside, for it curtails the growing of the ego and the ego is now dead-set on attaining full apocalyptic scope. Whatever that may turn out to mean.
I believe this is also correct. But we can now discern between realistic individualism and solipsistic individualism.
In the post above there is a good summary of the latter notion.
In order to clarify the former notion, realistic individualism, let me propose a study of the concept of dharma.
Where the individual relation to himself is explained as karma, the relation of society to itself is explained as dharma.
The focus on “good karma” is perhaps itself somewhat vampiric.
The focus on good dharma is truly self-interested altruism - such a focus beckons the will to efforts toward greatness. America has a great deal of dharmic vigour in its past, it has made great dharmic strides for all of us mankind.
But now it seems… their dharmic tension is running out.
A collapse of the web of dharma [norse: orlog] into individuals karmas [norse: wyrds] is coming. Or at hand. Or peaking.
Where is it at, this breakdown?
How much Dharma has the USA left?
A question to which the answer must remain in the dark until its positive content chooses to manifest in public light; a question here of hard loyalties, a question of military.
A great part of the nations dharma is upheld by its military. In the military, individual karma does not count, the individual is expendable and he is, as Edward Norton self-describes in the excellent Bourne Legacy, a “sin-eater”.
He does the sin and buries the knowledge of it deep in himself, so that his nation may go on to live sanely. Such a sin-eater is both morally inexcusable and absolutely necessary, to paraphrase Nortons memorable black ops design alpha.
The US military is as a whole just as vain as Narcissus - however, for it to be able to be vain as a military it must be strong, and for a military to be strong, its soldiers and officers must all be completely loyal to the order of rank. Therefore it is most likely the functional remainder of America - because soldiers are people who aren’t fundamentally worried about money; they’ve seen need beyond financial need. They know more about bottom lines, they do not have the luxury of solipsism.
So… the God of America may still well yet prove to have a sterner visage than the phantasmagoric spectacle of the individual.
Clearly it’s Mercury/Hermes… Hell, it even says “IN GOD WE TRUST”
I think America worships more than one God, it worships a pantheon.
The American Triad is
1 Jesus (as interpreted by protestants)
2 The God of Individual Liberty
3 Of Political Correctness or Social Justice (a deity imported to America by Brits (the Fabian Society) and European Jews like Herbert Marcuse (the Frankfurt School) in the mid 20th century).
Some lesser deities are
4 The God of Food
5 Of Hard Work
6 Money
7 Outdoorsmen and Ranchers
8 Patriots and Vigilantes
9 Science and medicine
0 Sports and entertainment
This is pretty funny - a lot of these are encompassed by Individualism as I laid out, but the God of Food made me lol.
Political Correctness or Social Justice has nothing to do with being imported - the whole culture has been a constant import from day 1, don’t pretend like some bad pills got slipped in there by Europeans - that lot ARE Europeans. They’re Europeans under specific conditions - that’s what makes America America.
Political Correctness or Social Justice is Individualism turned against Individualism, because successful Individualism results in severe inequality - the most successful snowball. The rest join the circus parade and are disillusioned about how severely the winners of former generations rig the odds against them. They never even had a chance except for the statistical anomalies - and Americans celebrate them as examples of moral fibre. Only in America can you celebrate such a contingency in luck as success. But that’s the whole appeal - make a risk and you might win big! And so many win so big, and their names are strewn nationwide to the effect of perceived immortality. Hooray America, and all of its success stories.
Right, that’s why I said they’re lesser deities.
Lol, well, Americans are the fattest nation in the world.
They’re also the hardest working in the developed world.
They’re the richest nation in the world.
They’re one of the most inventive.
One of the most outdoorsy.
One of the most patriotic, despite all the anti-American rhetoric coming from the left.
And the most entertained (Hollywood, etcetera).
While individual liberty wasn’t invented by Americans, from its beginning America was founded on and developed it to an extreme, whereas political correctness and social justice came over a century and a half later and Americans never took to it as much as other developed nations, which’s why its enemies, foreign and domestic, are attempting to punish it now.
If a man is willing to worship a single thing,
it says a lot about them as a person.
Worship is inferior to friendship.
And friendship requires both parties to be involved.
I’ve seen many Jehovah’s Witnesses say that they have a personal relationship with God.
This is not a substantial tangible relationship.
If a person knows the truth about a god,
and then chooses to avoid that god and be independent,
that says a lot about that person too.
I answered with the option “God is dead”,
because he is in most ways, a god of death.
Not sure if you intend but, this is a neat kabbalistic explosion and it works. You have secretly placed Money at the center of the King and the Childe. And the crucified. Good calls.
America as the/a tree of life. I can get behind it actually. Its better than the doomsday report of the god of Narcissism which we discerned “on the back of the tree”, form of klippotic Amerikee.
It is a bit like worshipping nature.
Jay Z, who perfectly fits the figure of the successful American Narcissus, said it to the New York Times special attachee who was chosen to speak to the man at some length, “In America, it is what it is”.
Hermes-Thoth - the god of Magic, or in mundane terms, of transaction… once again Money appears as the Central-God.
As Hermes Trismegistus the God says “As above, so below” - this is reflected in the American idea of a civilian president.
They revere themselves through revering the president. “Anyone can become president” - but not everyone.
The god of anyone but not everyone, or perhaps the angel or fairy, is at the tollbooth of the rainbow road - risk it all, throw it all on the line for a shot -
in this way, the best shots are thrown. Advance, because all or nothing. “Conservative America” would seem a contradiction, except it is the machinery of propulsion they seek to conserve. The desperate attempt, the lunge that may well turn a plunge, the gods of the abyss… don’t underestimate these! The Eagle watches over such matters.
Interesting, it must be coincidence (or synchronicity) because I know next to nothing about Kabala or mysticism in general.
Its an intuitive system supposedly representative of the structures of human cognition, the monad exploded into ten attributes.
If interested, do take a look at my thread on the subject, here.
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There seems to have been made some progress;
Money and Narcissus.
These have been most adamantly proposed here as the gods of America.
In what kind of Americans are Money and Narcissus most comprehensively combined?
Interlude;
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JYpqP9sErk[/youtube]
The cross no longer worn as a burden but as an ornament to ones self, indicating this is the Risen self.
Christianity in a sense unmasked as the cult of Osiris Risen.
Crazy. When the monetary value of the cross subsumes its spiritual value - when the musical demonstration of possession of monetary value becomes itself a form of spirit - when the veil of time is pierced and we are back in the days when people wrote on walls and worshipped cats…
I don’t know, but I think there’s more than one.
they got a bigass statue of her overlooking the Hudson Bay
though a couple thousand years before she arrived the while buffalo was already there
caring for the tired and the poor and the huddled masses or whatever
allegedly
we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots
i read that in a book full of words words words
Praise be to da erf
and de chikkens
Great quote, lol
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